Call for Editorial Fellows at Developmental Psychology! *Early Career (w/i 10yrs PhD) *Commitment to addressing the needs of underserved populations or increasing access to psychological knowledge & publishing *1-yr term; $1,000 USD www.apa.org/pubs/journal... @apajournals.bsky.social

Facebook data reveal the devastating real-world harms caused by the spread of #misinformation theconversation.com/facebook-dat... by @acarson.bsky.social et al. Misinformation’s real-world impact: "linked to poor health outcomes, falling public trust, and significant societal harm."

Glad Science collected this data (though the results are entirely unsurprising). GenAI cannot accurately summarize scientific papers, sacrificing accuracy for simplicity. And shame on publishers who are pushing genAI summaries on readers. Great way to accelerate an epistemic apocalypse.

The Clinical Psychology program at CSU is hiring! Please share these postings with anyone who might be interested. 1. Associate/Full: jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165... 2. Teaching position: jobs.colostate.edu/postings/164... 3. Tenure Track Assistant Professor: jobs.colostate.edu/postings/166...

Year 2 of Temple's Demystifying Graduate Applications Event!

The problem with AI companies trying to sell us glasses with “AI” instructions for how to cook that don’t work and skip steps is that we already have recipes in our kitchens, some of them quite readily available:

"Go on, human, ask me anything. Except basic math stuff. And putting things in sequential order. And don’t do any made-up riddles to mess with me. Real riddles ONLY."

UCDavis Psych is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠✨ Come join a vibrant, collaborative dept and live in a fun college town near Sacramento, San Francisco, Napa, and Lake Tahoe. Applications due Oct.21. Please share widely! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

I’m hiring!! 🎉 Looking for a full-time Lab Manager to help launch the Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab at Stanford. We’ll use all-day language recording, eye tracking, & neuroimaging to study how kids & families navigate unequal structural constraints. Please share: phxc1b.rfer.us/STANFORDWcqUYo

🧠Out now @natcomms.nature.com ! Brain changes linked to childhood maltreatment are among the field's most published findings. Yet, we find extensive replication failure of gray matter correlates in three large cohorts (N=3225), consistent across subsamples, models and operationalizations🧵

Psychology needs more diamond open access journals (free for authors to publish in and for readers to access) supported by universities (rather than for-profit publishers). Like or RT if you agree (I am curious how popular this opinion is in psychology). www.wsj.com/opinion/acad...

Tulane Psychology is hiring! We have a position open for a Professor of Practice in Neuroscience. Review begins 9/15. Please consider applying and share with colleagues: apply.interfolio.com/171388 Happy to address any questions about the position!

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Excited to announce that I started as an Assistant Professor at Tulane’s Psychology Department! Made it to the beautiful New Orleans & enjoying the oak trees! Recruiting PhD students through the Brain, Cognition & Dev Science area (deadline Dec 1). Please share widely & contact me with questions!

UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

Lazarus et al. (2025): A simple act with a lasting impact: Holding babies skin-to-skin in the NICU helped support their development and reduced differences linked to family income. Early touch can be a powerful way to promote equity from the very start #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

Interested in applying to graduate programs or research positions in psychology? Want more information and feedback on your submission materials? Then Harvard’s Prospective Ph.D. & RA Event in Psychology (PPREP) Is for you!! psychology.fas.harvard.edu/pprep More info in the link!! Please retweet!

Imaging cellular activity simultaneously across all organs of a vertebrate reveals body-wide circuits www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I will be reviewing applications for Stony Brook’s Clinical Psychology doctoral program this fall. The research streams of my lab are summarized on the department website: www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/psyc...

📢 New publication! Shout out to lead author and grad student in our lab Jackson Hewitt! Results showed that maternal depression may be triggered by fluctuations in children’s depression symptoms over time, but not vice versa. tinyurl.com/yc2br575 #ChildDevelopment #Depression #MentalHealth

Influencers recommend a high-protein diet. But see this post by Dr. Topol. “Habitual or chronic high protein intake is associated with epidemiological evidence of harm, and, at high doses, the studies I reviewed raise the concern about pro-inflammatory effects and increasing cardiovascular risk...”

The Manybabies4 paper is out! Infants' Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large-Scale, Multi-Lab, Coordinated Replication Study onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 1000 babies tested in 37 labs; "Overall, 49.34% of infants preferred Helpers over Hinderers in the social condition"

A new scam involves an AI chatbot sending you a personalized job description, expressing excitement about your potential application. But when you reply with your resume, they recommend using a paid resume service, claiming it will improve your chances of being noticed.

There's a lawsuit about AI stealing your work. It's the same lawyers taking on Elsevier et al in a separate case. Academics: 1. Check if your work is in LibGen at www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... 2. If so, let the lawyers know at www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

Adding just six hours of media literacy training to an American Government course significantly improved students’ ability to identify credible sources and boosted their confidence in evaluating where information comes from. theconversation.com/college-stud...

“It was slop upon slop upon slop, a house of cards made out of slop with an actual research study blinking somewhere way out in the distance.” A sobering account of the distortions and misinformation propagated online and in large language models based on Darby’s research study:

CU Psych Job Alert: Teaching Assistant Professor position. We have a very supportive group of teaching profs & several teaching profs of distinction. #psycjobs #psychology #academicjobs jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... 1/n

BREAKING: A new experiment in Philly shows cash rental assistance slashed homelessness rates by 57–67%.

Forget the marshmallow test, we need to start using the chocolate-covered strawberry test in psychology. Really enjoyed making these.

A riddle for you: Continues to work even after being fired.

People do this in healthcare and it always irritates me. “Look at that patient. They sit there with an iPhone but say they can’t afford their medications?” Buddy, you are mad at the wrong thing.

A natural experiment provides evidence for promoting moderate-vigorous physical activity: the importance of walkable cities www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fascinating thread! You might enjoy my recent Science piece on AI "gaslighting": www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

One study concluded 70% of increased electric cost across US due to AI data centers. apnews.com/article/elec...

Me in 2023: Just chill. All the AI doom scenarios involve giving models direct access to and control over real world systems, and no one would be that dumb In 2025: oh fuck

How do brain networks tracking past trauma react to stress in the future? Thrilled to share new work from the lab led by rockstar postdoc @felhardi.bsky.social with wonderful collab @dylanggee.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #psychscisky #neuroskyence

🆕 RESEARCH: Not all kids respond to early adversity the same way. We examined data from ~7,400 children for 4 years and found something notable about positive emotions & mental health outcomes... doi.org/10.1101/2025... A thread 🧵 #MentalHealth #ChildDevelopment #Resilience /1

“If these trends are not stopped, science is going to be destroyed." Here's my story on the accelerating growth of systemic research fraud--aka paper mills. Gift link: nyti.ms/45rDirw

We need to produce significantly less plastic; recycle a lot more of what is produced; and stop the rest getting into natural ecosystems phys.org/news/2025-08...

Our new paper is out today! 🎉 In it, we use administrative register data to document how psychiatric disorders are strongly linked to parental income, from childhood far into adulthood. Furthermore, we attempt to separate causation and selection using kinship-based models. doi.org/10.1111/jcpp...

Strong and sobering signals that need to be understood …

📣 Heads-up that our amazing dept (Berkeley Psych) is anticipating hiring *two* TT Asst Profs this Fall, under the themes of (1) Social & Personality Psychology, and (2) Biological Basis of Behavior. Official job ads coming soon... Send qs for (1) to Iris Mauss/Serena Chen, (2) to Linda Wilbrecht

NIH considers the use of AI in science as potential misconduct. Let that sink in. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Have a nice day!

Wrote a little thing with my colleague Victor -- why is every "advanced" AI system completely flunking the Three Laws of Robotics? futurism.com/ai-models-fl...

Excited to share my new lab website! The Learning & Behavior Change Lab will launch at Rice in July 2026. I’ll be recruiting over the next year! @ricesocsci.bsky.social www.sinclairlab-rice.com

Interesting…

Seamless Interaction dataset with 4000+ hrs of face-to-face dyadic interactions! 🤯 Seems like it could be a game changer for studying embodied turn-taking & mutual adaptation complementary with CANDOR, etc... arxiv.org/abs/2506.22554

Reality: Thin research on benefits & possible harms. Sum: mostly hype. Ice baths are booming in popularity – but they come with health risks theconversation.com/ice-baths-ar... via @ConversationEDU

5 reasons why Medicaid cuts affect everyone: 1️⃣ More ER Overcrowding 2️⃣ Higher Insurance Premiums — Hospitals shift unpaid costs to your insurance. 3️⃣ Job Loss — Fewer clinics, especially in rural areas. 4️⃣ Weaker Public Health — Less funding for services 5️⃣ Higher State Taxes or Service Cuts